Laura and her father are staying at a dilapidated old house, boarded up windows keeping the light out and the darkness in. Without power they use battery powered lamps and flashlights to explore the house as bumping and banging is heard from upstairs . Within minutes Laura's father is dead and she is left to confront whatever dark secret hides between the stone walls.
Horror from Chili does not come along very often and with this one comes a certain amount of hype. Lauded as the new PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and sold amongst a bidding flurry at Cannes THE SILENT HOUSE sells itself as being shot on the prosumer level Digital SLR camera from Canon as well as being shot in one take. Immediately you are taken out of the film and challenging yourself to pick apart the technical aspirations of this low-budget thriller that has potential to scare if it could just straighten out its damn mind what the plot is or ifi it even exists. I assume there is a deleted subplot about a book as the lead character spends a lot of her looking at shelves, in minute detail.
Left with no idea why anyone was in the house, why the lead character was so scared of banging noises she spent the time looking about storage areas or how they explain away the placement of lighting sources in a one take movie nor why the audio suddenly dips like a wireless microphone has come loose in her clothing the hype of A SILENT HOUSE is never lived up to.
NOTE: Adam Mason's PIG has already used the same camera to film a "one-take" improvised horror movie in broad daylight.
Floppy.
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